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DevOps is a movement, rooted in the agile community, to improve the collaboration between the development and operations teams, speeding software delivery and improving quality. While the DevOps has traditionally focused on "born on web" companies, IBM'

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I was inspired by this entertaining article by Alex Tatiyants: DevOps is Ruining My Craft . A favorite analogy in the DevOps community is that the “old style” of IT server management, where people can make manual changes to their servers, leads to production servers that are unique and precious, like snowflakes. If you don’t completely automate the configuration of your servers, your chances of re-creating the exact same server twice are nearly zero, just as no two snowflakes are alike. And because you can never re-create a production... [More]

DevOps I and many of my fellow cloud and DevOps colleagues attended and presented DevOps specific sessions at the recent IBM Impact 2012 conference in sunny Las Vegas. The conference had over 8,500 participants flooding the Venetian. The key technology trends discussed at the conference were: Cloud Mobile BPM DevOps (our favorite) One of the biggest announcements at the conference was the announcement of the new IBM PureSystems which include IBM PureFlex and PureApplication. These are IBM's new workload optimized cloud environments providing... [More]

In early April, a couple members of the IBM DevOps team went to Austin, Texas to attend the Devopsdays Austin 2012 conference. This was a conference that is put on by members of the DevOps community to help get people from different organizations together to share ideas and learn from each other. We met a bunch of smart people and learned a lot about how some teams have implemented DevOps practices in their orgnanizations. Today, I want to talk about a couple topics that the IBM DevOps team has been researching and were important themes at... [More]